SILS News
March 14, 2013
Bored with your bookshelves? In need of new treasures? Add to your collection at the UNC at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Annual Used Book Sale!
From Tuesday, March 26 through Thursday, March 28, the Student Chapter of the American Library Association (SCALA)...
March 13, 2013
Dr. Sandra Hughes-Hassell, professor at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and doctoral student, Casey Rawson, have been selected for the 2013 Virginia Hamilton Essay Award Honor Citation for their...
March 13, 2013
Evan Carroll (BSIS ‘08, MSIS ’12) was featured on the PBS Newshour on March 11, 2013 during a broadcast titled, "What Happens to Our Digital Lives When We Die?” The show spoke about the struggles people are having to gain access to online files and accounts when their loved...
March 13, 2013
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS) alumnus and chair of the School’s Board of Visitors, Charles B. Lowry (MSLS, ‘74), retired in December 2012 as the executive director of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Dr....
March 12, 2013
The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received the nation's number two ranking of best "Library and Information Studies" graduate schools by U.S. News and World Report in the magazine's 2014 edition of “America's...
March 12, 2013
Congratulations to UNC at Chapel Hill School of information and Library Science (SILS) graduate student, Danielle Lois Fasig, who has won the SILS Elfreda Chatman Research Award for the spring of 2013 for her research proposal: "Usability Evaluation of Finding Aids for Archives."
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March 12, 2013
The Dr. Deborah Barreau Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to Special Interest Group - Digital Libraries (SIG-DL) has been established in memory of Dr. Deborah Barreau, a leader in ASIS&T for many years including SIG-DL Cabinet Representative (2006), SIG-DL Chair (2008),...
The 2013 OCLC-Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science featuring Deen Freelon
March 12, 2013
"Across the Divide: On Interdisciplinary Collaboration between Information Science and Communication" will be the topic of the eighth annual OCLC/Frederick G. Kilgour Lecture in Information and Library Science on March 25, 2013.
Deen Freelon, assistant...
March 8, 2013
If you’re making plans for your summer vacation, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science (SILS) may have the answer for you! The popular summer seminars to Prague, Czech Republic and London, England offer a once in a lifetime opportunity to...
March 6, 2013
Dr. Barbara B. Moran, Louis Round Wilson Distinguished Professor at the UNC at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS), participated in a panel discussion about the role of technology in the future of libraries on WUNC 91.5 National Public Radio’s broadcast, “The...
March 6, 2013
Carol Jenkins, professor of practice at the UNC at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and director of UNC’s Health Sciences Library, has announced her retirement after 26 years at the helm of one of the nation’s leading health and medical libraries. Her...
March 6, 2013
Mary Mellon and Peter Shirts, graduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science (SILS), have been selected as winners of the 2013 Baker & Taylor Scholarships for summer seminars in Europe.
Shirts will travel to London for his...
March 4, 2013
On Tuesday, "The 2013 Emerging Trends in Information Professions Showcase" took place at Motorco Music Hall in Durham. This lively event included lightening talks by SILS faculty, alumnus and student and a panel discussion by some local IT/IS companies.
Lightening Presentations featured...
March 4, 2013
For those who missed it, on Friday, March 1, 2013, Dr. Charles F. Friedman, director of the Health Informatics Program, Schools of Information and Public Health; professor, Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health; and professor, School of Information at the University of...
March 4, 2013
By Brandon F. Thompson, UNC at Chapel Hill Facilities Services
A unique carpentry project will be taking place on campus in the coming days. At first, it might just sound like a typical job for Facilities Services’ Carpentry Shop – repair a section of one of the campus’...
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